[twitter-dev] Authenticating / release of IDs & usernames

2009-08-15 Thread stasisme...@googlemail.com
Hi all, I came across a strange issue today with a few users in my app that still uses basic auth: 1. User signs up to app with username / password 2. App verifies against verify_credentials 3. On success, the returned is stored. 4. User changes their screen_name, and that screen name is relea

Re: Status update encoding issue

2009-01-18 Thread stasisme...@googlemail.com
I came across this issue when handling tweets and decided which format to store them in my database. The API docs state: "Please note that angle brackets ("<" and ">") are entity-encoded" (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API- Documentation#Encoding) So, we must assume that the messages we recei